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Old 12th Nov 2018, 22:34
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Thomas coupling
 
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Danger

DB has to be talking either about an "auto" to the hover @ night, or genuine EOL's to land @ night..........in the sim. Surely?

Only a tiny handful of pilots practice engines off to land @ night and they are mainly mil.
I suspect that today, however, that number is much less due to restrictions covering damage to the hardware and risk assessments...

In my total of around 2500 genuine EOl's, only about 10% were @ night...and of those, only 10% were by landing light only (no additional lighting, external or otherwise). It used to scare the "be jesus" out of me, never mind the poor student.
And those were the days where everyone was chucking helos at the ground.
C'mon DB "fess" up?
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